Plant Plumeria acutifolia (Apocynaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Frangipani

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
ACETYL-LUPEOL	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMYRIN	10	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-DIHYDROPLUMERICIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-DIHYDROPLUMERICINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAOUTCHOUC	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CEROTIC-ACID	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLOL	15	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FARNESOL	17	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FULVOPLUMIERIN	7	Bark	1000.0	2500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL	35	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INCLUDES	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRIDOIDS	1	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOPLUMERICINE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-GLYCOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-(+)-BORNESITOL	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOL	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL	21	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
FLavor	3	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
FPTase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fungicide	7	HerbalGram No. 17.
Gastroprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hemostat	4	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic	2	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	6	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	2	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
HIV-RT-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hypocholesterolemic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hypoglycemic	4	Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	4	Duke, 1992 *
ICAM-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	1	Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *